The Farm marks Walt McGough's first production at Boston Playwrights' Theatre. A graduate of the MFA Playwriting Program at Boston University, Walt's plays have been performed at Boston's Orfeo Group, the Sideshow Theatre Company of Chicago, Chicago Dramatists, Nu Sass Productions in Washington, DC, and Chicago's Second City. Walt's 10-minute play, Two Sock's Discuss Loss, was performed at the 12th Annual Boston Theater Marathon in 2010. Last July, his play Priscilla Dreams the Answer won Washington, DC's 2011 Capital Fringe Festival Audience Award for Best Comedy.

Walt McGough's (playwright) plays include The Farm, Paper City Phoenix, True Places and Dante Dies!! (and then things get weird). Originally from Pittsburgh. Walt was a participant in the 2011 National New Play Network MFA Workshop, and a recipient of the Kennedy Center's 2010 Ken Ludwig Scholarship. This past summer he received the inaugural short-play commission from Playwrights Commons in Boston. He is a founding ensemble member of Sideshow Theatre Company in Chicago, for whom he serves as Literary Manager, and currently works on staff at SpeakEasy Stage Company. He holds an MFA in playwriting from Boston University, and is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild. For more information, visit www.waltmcgough.com

David R. Gammons (director) is a director, designer, visual artist, and theatre educator. He is thrilled to return to Boston Playwrights' Theatre, where he previously directed the premiere of John Kuntz's Elliot Norton award-winning The Salt Girl. Recent directing projects include the New England premieres of Cherry Docs, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, and My Name is Rachel Corrie at The New Repertory Theatre; The Hotel Nepenthe, The Duchess of Malfi, and Titus Andronicus (2007 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Director) for Actors' Shakespeare Project; The Winter's Tale as part of the Shakespeare Exploded Festival at the American Repertory Theater; Adrienne Kennedy's Funnyhouse of a Negro at Brandeis Theatre Company; and Blackbird for SpeakEasy Stage Company. David is a graduate of both the Directing Program at the ART Institute for Advanced Theatre Training and the Visual and Environmental Studies Department of Harvard University. He has been Director of the Theatre Program at Concord Academy since 2000, where he directs a company of student artists committed to creating original experimental work, and with whom he has conceived and directed 11 world-premieres, including Sea of Troubles, LHOOQ, Double Negative, Howl, Permanent Fatal Errors, and FLUX. For more information, please visit davidrgammons.com